The Christian press also reported that on April 18, 2006, police arrested Avinash Lal, an independent Pentecostal pastor, and six other Christian leaders in the same Madhya Pradesh district for conversion by allurement and conducting illegal religious gatherings.

While her father's voice, the chained dog, the officer's spurs, can be read to support the theme of male oppression, the last sentence, with its unexpected reference to the fertile smell of pink s, is lyrical and mysterious, suggesting the allurement that life on the shore still possesses for Edna.

Although previously the courts generally upheld the right of Christian groups to worship and to construct facilities to house their congregations, a Supreme Court decision promulgated in August 2003 ruled against recognizing a Roman Catholic group and determined that its medical services constituted allurement.

For sustaining faith in the system, it is obligatory for every presiding member to make sincere efforts in bringing about a conciliated settlement in every case put before it without causing any kind of coercion, threat, undue influence, allurement or misrepresentation either directly or indirectly," he said.

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